By Itoro Godwin

Police operatives attached to Festac Division have rescued three abandoned babies.
While two of the babies were abandoned at different locations in Festac Town, the mother of the third was caught after dropping the three-week-old baby near a gas station on 21 Road.
It was gathered that the woman identified as Bose Ojo, 27, went to the area at about 9am on July 27, dropped the baby and left.
Unfortunately for her, a resident in the area saw her and raised alarm.  She was arrested. The suspect allegedly denied abandoning the baby.
According to a police source, Ojo and her baby were examined at Mother and Child Hospital, First Avenue, after which the child was admitted.
“She claimed that she did not abandon the child. That she just dropped the baby to rest. The woman has no fixed address and she hawks sachet water.
“She said the child’s father, a bus driver called Odunayo, abandoned her after their home at Orile-Iganmu was demolished.
“The woman cannot keep that child unless she gets support. She is not married. No visible means of sustenance. No accommodation. She has no skills and she’s not in good health. The woman never attended antenatal and also had her baby in a neighbouring bush all by herself,” said the source.
The second child, a boy of about six weeks was found at Third Avenue, behind ‘H’ Close, the source said.
“The child was taken to the same hospital and he was certified okay. There is urgent need for protection order for both children,” the source said.


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Residents of Igbo -Elerin, a suburb of Lagos have called on the Lagos State Police Command, especially Isashi and Okoko police stations to save them from the activities of suspected cultists and armed robbers terrorising the area.
The call followed the recent killing of three people, including a four-year-old boy who went to buy bread with the father, a teenager and a welder.
The killers were alleged to be members of a cult group.
Witness told Daily Sun that, “the gunmen rode on  bikes to the house of the teenager who was alleged to belong to a rival cult group, a day before the incident.
The witness, who spoke under condition of anonymity said: “Maybe, they did not meet their real target that day and returned the following day. They  met a friend to their target who was alleged to also belong to the same cult group with their target, and killed him.
“It was when they were shooting to scare passers-by that bullets hit a four- year- old boy who went to buy bread with his father and  a man who owns welding workshop in the area. The boy died instantly, while the man was rushed to a hospital wherever he eventually died too.”
Another eye witness told Daily Sun that Igbolerin streets have become den of cultists who unleash terror daily on the residents.
“Months earlier, a cult group went to Cement-okeodo, shot one person dead, while two others received bullet injuries,” he said.
Following these incidents, the Baale of Igbolerin, Alkali Mohammed Taofeeq Tina, called on parents and guardians in the area to monitor their children and wards.

to ensure they do not get involved in criminal activities, as anyone caught would face the full wrath of the law no matter who the parents are.